In the Oval Office on Tuesday, with a reporter asking about consumer prices, President Trump said something that is going to be difficult to explain to every American household paying 4.2 percent more for everything than they were a year ago. “You know what I...
The House passed the Secure America Act on Tuesday, 214 to 212. The bill funds ICE and Border Patrol for the next three years at a total of roughly $70 billion. Zero Democrats voted for it. Zero of the accountability measures they demanded were included. It heads to...
In February, the Supreme Court struck down the sweeping global tariffs Donald Trump had imposed on nearly every country on Earth. The justices ruled he had exceeded his authority. The tariffs that had been generating tens of billions of dollars a month for the federal...
On Tuesday, Iowa Republicans handed Donald Trump a defeat that has not happened anywhere else this primary season. Businessman Zach Lahn beat Trump’s hand-picked candidate, Rep. Randy Feenstra, in the Republican primary for governor. The margin was less than a...
The Senate voted 52 to 47 Thursday morning to pass a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill that funds ICE and Border Patrol through the end of the Trump administration. The vote came after 18 straight hours of procedural votes. One Republican, Lisa Murkowski of...
The Congressional Budget Office now projects that the Social Security trust fund will run out of money in 2032. That is one year sooner than the Social Security Administration’s own trustees had projected last year. If Congress does not act before then, 67...
